US alternative investment managers (IMs) continue to operate with elevated levels of uncalled investment capital, or dry powder, at a time when credit markets remain competitive and valuations are high, according to a special report by Fitch Ratings.  'With more capital chasing fewer deals, significant fund underperformance is possible if

At a time of rising demands from US pension funds for proper disclosure and record US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fines against private equity firms, LPs have given a clarion call for fees to be more clearly explained. The Reputational Risk in Private Equity Report (RRiPE) 2015 surveyed the

Seventy-four per cent of private equity fund managers made firm-wide increases in base salary from 2014 to 2015, according to Preqin’s 2016 Private Equity Compensation and Employment Review.  According to the survey of almost 200 private equity firms, the average increase in salary was 7 per cent, with 14 per

European corporates continue to embrace alternative finance, with about one third (30 per cent) of their funding coming from this source, according to research published by Allen & Overy. However, the market remains fragmented and largely domestic, requiring an industry-wide effort to embrace a uniform standard in order to harness

The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) sixth annual survey of venture capital trust (VCT) investment reveals that a total of 13,508 new jobs have been created at the SMEs surveyed since the beginning of the VCT investment scheme.  According to the survey – ‘Nurturing success, delivering growth: VCT investment 1995-2015’